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Because I don't find that BSL comes out of the speakers when they make announcements at the swimming pool that they are about to turn on waves, open and shut rides, that anyone wearing a red band should leave the pool. The lifeguard does not whistle in BSL if they want my attention and if you...

Some would. A friend of mine was either the very first or certainly one of the first to be implanted in the UK. Back then the implant sat out on a kind of stud like the BAHA rather than a magnetic connection, so she had a selection of covers to put over the abutment when she was not wearing the...

The original Naida is resistant to sprinklings of water, like walking out in the rain. The H2O is resistant to running water and temporary immersion so swimming broadly above the water but ducking your head under every now and then is OK, as is running it under the tap. Going snorkelling is not...

I was quite into the totally implantable hearing aid thing for a while because I felt it might give improved actual function (since they do a fundamentally different thing by wobbling your bones and in my case bypass around half my hearing loss) and also because they are waterproof. Now that...

Oh, the famous "She's selectively deaf" that they said all the way through my primary school years, even though I'd clearly never passed a hearing test. Really? Why would I select not to go to a show my parents had paid for and instead stay in the classroom for extra maths? Why would I not go to...

Thanks, must be your geographical location because when I typed in the exact same thing it came up with museums and stuff. That's the one. Maybe since Google realises I'm in the UK it doesn't think I'm interested in a small US retailer. I opted out of their "preferences" thing, but it doesn't...

I had seen a barrette style hearing aid retention clip online a while ago, but I didn't buy it because in the end I was changed to a Naida hearing aid and could buy the secure n stay clip for it. Now that Phonak is looking to the waterproof market I'd love to be able to wear hearing aids and...

Oh I have too many to count. Like the time I thought I saw/heard "Empress in a box" which didn't make sense, and actually it had been "Interesting thought". There was the time I thought someone had done the splits in the garden but actually her garden fence had broken. "She's a total cow"...

I find it hard to understand why nothing does this already, for pre-recorded media I mean, not live. For most media the subtitle track is already separate, many have it as a .srt track. Shouldn't you be able to get an app which reads the .srt track on its own and can read the on time and off...

The only thing I really come across negatively is the pointless and inevitable game of "Who's the deafest" which becomes a boring and repetitive. I can't hear this, I can't use the phone, I have the flattest audiogram, I have no ears, I'm properly deaf, genuine deaf people hear absolutely...

I've been watching the Celebrity Apprentice for some time (I know, but I can't give it up either) and something really interesting has struck me about the last 2 seasons. The previous season featured Marlee Matlin, accompanied throughout by her interpreter. I didn't hear a single negative...

I think the idea is that if you became sighted then there would be more of a sense of what you have gained over what is lost. You don't have to learn a new language the way that Deaf people need to learn to speak English and hear English instead of ASL. Learning to drive is a relatively quick...

I know that the Phonak streamers are designed to be worn around your neck, but do you get any signal at all if you don't? Like you can stand outside a loop wire and still hear something. I am thinking that now they are going into waterproof products this could be an area they fail to compete...

It is usually a late blinded condition, but it can have early onset. My father was born with very poor sight, deteriorated to what would be termed in the US "legally blind" by age 7 and was blind but for the odd shadow and light source by age 12. This was through RP. It's more common for it to...

My dad nearly got selected as a research candidate for this but just missed out, we aren't sure why. :(

I'm lucky if I don't accidentally hurl the whole hearing aid at the ceiling.

That's what I meant to do. What happens next, though, is not always part of the plan! :laugh2:

Does anyone have the Naida with the tamper-proof battery compartment that is designed for children's hearing aids? I've been trying to work out how it is set up, if it's part of the battery door or part of the hearing aid. I have the replacement battery door for the FM audioshoe, so if I ordered...

Personally I think you need to offer the widest package. You can't offer services which are restricted to speech and language professionals so there may not be much point in major blocks on speech development, but you can certainly support their work more actively than your standard daycare...

The thing that finally worked for me was when my daughter was given a puppet which had a mummy rabbit and a baby rabbit finger puppet which was attached to its hand with Velcro. We played mummy rabbit plays with baby rabbit and they hold hands and cuddle, then baby rabbit pulls off mummy rabbit...